Senior Rapid Response Officer

Education:

• Bachelor's degree or its international equivalent in, Public Health, Emergency Management, Disaster Risk Reduction or related field.
  

Experience:

• Typically requires 6+ years of relevant experience in emergency/rapid outbreak response Activity, with significant time spent in field-based roles.
  

• Documented leadership implementing GHS-focused projects with an emphasis on emergency/outbreak preparedness and response.
  

• Proficient experience in current program developments in emergency/outbreak preparedness and response.
  

• Years of work experience that demonstrate sensitivity to understanding of the GHS space and emergency/outbreak preparedness and response best practices.
  

• Prior work experience in a non-governmental organization, U.S. government agency, or private organization.
  

• Prior experience implementing USG-funded contracts strongly preferred.
  

• Prior work experience in a non-governmental organization (NGO), government agency, or private company.
  

• Oversees the day-to-day implementation of emergency preparedness and response activities with a complex scope that require evaluation of variable and rapidly evolving situations in Kenya and the local region.
  

• Demonstrates strong judgment in developing methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria to respond to emerging infectious disease threats and verified outbreak events with little supervision.
  

• Networks with key internal and external STRIDES personnel; liaises with STRIDES Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning team to measure the Activity’s emerging response interventions against project-wide and emergency response-specific indicators.
  

• Provides input to STRIDES Senior Management Team on national guidelines and normative policies for emergency and outbreak response; coordinates with STRIDES and FHI 360’s communications team to highlight the Activity’s success stories and best practices specific to emergency response interventions.
  

• Assists in providing technical support in the development and dissemination of tools, materials, reports, papers, and intervention for projects.
  

• Provides support to work planning and workplan preparation and finalization.
  

Project Design Implementation:

• Leads the creation of the emergency/outbreak response of STRIDES workplans within given resource and financial constraints.
  

• Work with STRIDES Senior Management Team (SMT) to respond to requests and inquiries from the United States Government (USG) regarding emergency outbreak response.
  

• Coordinates with STRIDES technical and programmatic teams to ensure activities are implemented according to award requirements and consistent with FHI 360 policy and standard operating procedures (SOPs).
  

• Work with STRIDES finance and administrative teams to prepare local subcontracts and budgets as needs arise.
  

• Contributes to planning and making recommendations for STRIDES implementation.
  

• Influences design and scope of STRIDES initiatives and programs in the emergency/outbreak response technical focus area.
  

• Develops strategies and tools for the design and implementation of specific technical components.
  

• Ensures technical implementation is consistent with best practices in emergency response and meets donor contractual obligations including providing oversight and direction to other STRIDES team members.
  

• Coordinate with the Community team to support the RCCE activities.
  

• Coordinates with employees and consultants, on-site and in the field throughout implementation of emergency response activities in-country and/or regionally.
  

Project/Program Reporting:

• Supports preparation of reports to the donor (quarterly, semi-annual, and annual, etc) , highlighting achievements across STRIDES Objective 4/emergency response activities, including the drafting of publications and external communications.
  

• Gathers information, data and statistics needed to provide evidence to reports, presentations, papers, and other documentation produced.
  

• Assists with technical troubleshooting, guide data analysis and application of data.
  

• Participates in data review and support data for decision making.
  

• Ensures the documentation and reporting of appropriate services rendered to clients is done in the relevant service registers.
  

• Assists with compiling technical content (e.g., reports, presentations, manuscripts).
  

• Performs other duties as assigned.